Posted onJune 11, 2016|Comments Off on Lost and Found – June 11th Edition

What to remember about June 11th…

1776 Continental Congress appoints Committee of Five to draft the Declaration of Independence; members are Thomas Jefferson (VA), Benjamin Franklin(PA), Robert R. Livingston(NY), Roger Sherman(CT), and John Adams (MA)

1927 Charles Lindbergh awarded Distinguished Flying Cross for his nonstop transatlantic flight from New York to Paris

1943 Britain invades Sicily beginning Operation Corkscrew

1963 University of Alabama desegregated by President John F. Kennedy’s federalization of Alabama National Guard

1873 Canadian parliament creates North-West Mounted Police; they will later become Royal Canadian Mounted Police or “Mounties”

1900 Sergeant William Harvey Carney of the 54th Massachusetts Colored Infantry is awarded Medal of Honor for his bravery on July 18, 1863 at James Island, South Carolina; 1st African-American to receive this award

Posted onApril 19, 2016|Comments Off on Lost and Found – April 19th Edition

What to remember about April 19th…

1721 Patriot Roger Sherman is born (d. 1793); only person to sign all four great state papers of the U.S.: Continental Association, Declaration of Independence, Articles of Confederation, and Constitution

1775 American Revolution begins when British troops engage armed minutemen at Lexington, Massachusetts; “shot heard around the world”

Posted onJune 11, 2015|Comments Off on Lost and Found – June 11th Edition

What to remember about June 11th…

1776 Continental Congress appoints Committee of Five to draft the Declaration of Independence; members are Thomas Jefferson (VA), Benjamin Franklin(PA), Robert R. Livingston(NY), Roger Sherman(CT), and John Adams (MA)

1927 Charles Lindbergh awarded Distinguished Flying Cross for his nonstop transatlantic flight from New York to Paris

1943 Britain invades Sicily beginning Operation Corkscrew

1963 University of Alabama desegregated by President John F. Kennedy’s federalization of Alabama National Guard